The Honorable Mimi Tsankov (Ret.) is a certified mediator and arbitrator in New York City, currently serving on the JAMS Labor Panel, the American Arbitration Association Labor Panel, and a range of New York State judicial district mediation panels. For nearly two decades, she served as a judge in the federal administrative judiciary, and her career also includes prosecuting cases on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Peace Corps, as well as over ten years in private law practice. A nationally and internationally recognized leader in the legal community, she has held elected and appointed roles for decades in the ABA, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Judicial Council 2, the Federal Bar Association, and the National Association of Women Judges. She has received multiple ABA Presidential Appointments as a UN Representative to the Department of Global Communications and currently serves as Immediate Past Chair of the ABA Judicial Division’s National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary. She is on the adjunct law faculty at Fordham Law School and has been on the faculty of Colorado Law School and Sturm College of Law. She completed her J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law and earned an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Virginia Graduate School of Politics.